VFW

After our wake up call at the WLA Tournament Championship Game our boys were very focused over the past two weeks in preparation for the FOR Tournament. Our first game on Friday was against the Saber Bulldogs, our defense was what we had been working on to improve. The end result was allowing them 2 points in the first half to a 38-12 victory. The second game was a revenge game against the FOR Victory who beat us in the Hollywood Dodger Tournament last August in Las Vegas. The Victory had been playing up in 5th grade during the past CBO Season so we needed to bring our "A" game to the court, defense again was the key in a 34-24 victory putting us on course to meet the Ikaika Warriors in the Championship Game on Sunday. This was a game that you should have seen, as coaches we can only diagram and explain what to do on the court. Our boys executed our game plan almost perfectly. We wanted to slow the pace and to turn a 40 minute game into a 20 minute game. At halftime we had an 11-10 lead and were ready to run for the second half. The game came down to the last 35 seconds where we ran an offensive play that we drew in the huddle. We scored the go ahead basket and then with another Warrior time out we set up our defense to shut them down in the last 11 seconds for the 23-22 victory. A big key to our win was our team defense and our free throw shooting. We shot 70% to their 47%. That is why we shoot free throws so much in practice everyweek. We are so proud of our boys on how hard they fought today against a much bigger and stronger Warrior team, it shows what our boys can do if they put their minds to it. They should be proud of this Championship. We will be having practice this Friday at Mariners but no practice on Sunday so we can celebrate Mothers Day together. We might have free VFW practice time on Saturday but are waiting confirmation on this by mid-week. We hope everyone has a much more relaxing Monday then we had on Sunday. Thanks, Mark